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"Soy boy" - a case study of how the meat and dairy industries weaponized a meme for profit

Nydex said:
This is something I've observed in my country a lot. Most people will almost always buy the darker yolked eggs even though in reality the chickens that laid them are kept in the exact same way as all others, but their feed is colored orange, and the price of these eggs is 50% higher.

It's insane that people fall for this kind of thing, but again it comes down to ignorance and laziness to do one's own research.

Baking grains darker to make them appear "more whole grain" is insane though, NL beats BG on this one :ROFLMAO:
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I don't mind lutein supplementation for chicken feed, since that's largely what makes egg yolks yellow anyhow, and it can obtained from flowers. It's a carotenoid that plays some role in human physiology too.

@The Traveler - I'd love to see some specific evidence for this grain roasting claim. How does that square up against EU food regulations?
 
Transform said:
I don't mind lutein supplementation for chicken feed, since that's largely what makes egg yolks yellow anyhow, and it can obtained from flowers. It's a carotenoid that plays some role in human physiology too.

@The Traveler - I'd love to see some specific evidence for this grain roasting claim. How does that square up against EU food regulations?
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Lookup 'Moutbrood'.

It makes the bread look darker, though has no change in nutritional value.



Kind regards,

The Traveler
 
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Malt bread is a type of bread that is baked with the middle of the grain and to which extra wheat fibre has been added. The malt bread is so named because it is baked from flour from malted grain
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Een moutbrood is net zo gezond als een tarwebrood alleen bevat het geen zogenoemde "pitjes" omdat slechts het middelste van de graankorrel wordt gebruikt en de kiemen worden weggelaten.
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Gotchya (y)
 
northape said:
Making your own bread is a very underrated skill.
Even if you can't grow your own food, at the very least cook with raw materials.
It's sad to watch a modern generation who are clueless about basic stuff.
It's not going to get better with AI dominance and no incentive to think for yourself.
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On that line, I'm trying to retrain my disgust reaction to food that has become partly spoiled. This is not a good idea with all types of food, but for example fruit is often partially spoiled and moldy, and just removing that part makes it perfectly fine to eat. I suppose this is obvious to many people, but I have been conditioned to think that such foods have always "gone bad" and throw them away.

I'm also trying to retrain my disgust reaction so it doesn't get easily triggered by uncommon foods that are still perfectly fine. I'm not a picky eater at all, but eating certain foods that aren't common in my culture is still difficult for me. For example, this happens with grasshoppers. So I've been sometimes capturing a decent amount of grasshoppers and following a recipe to fry them. They taste very good, but something in my mind often wants to reject them. So I think it's a good training to eat them from time to time and weaken that overly restrictive part of my mind.

Linking this to the original topic of the thread, a meme somewhat close to the soyboy meme has been the "eat the bugs" meme, where the passing of laws allowing certain insects to be considered foodstuffs in the EU is presented as a plan to force people to eat only "bugs" instead of meat. I haven't looked closely into it, but I wouldn't be surprised if the meat industry was partly behind it as well, together with certain political organizations.
 
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This is a great article. Thank you for sharing.
We make our own soy milk and I drink it daily for breakfast in an overnight oats concoction with plant based protein added. We have a small machine that makes the milk from dried soybeans and water. We add a little honey for flavor. I find it delicious and am proud to say that I can start every day in a vegan way. My typical lunch of PB&J keeps me vegetarian until dinner. Then I eat what I am served at family time.

My son came home from college with this Soy Boy myth recently. I am working on "de-programming" him. I look forward to sharing this information with him.
Thank you again @Nydex for posting this. Your writing skills are outstanding.
 
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psychonuaghty said:
Interestingly, my son came home from college with this Soy Boy myth and I am working on "de-programming" him. I look forward to sharing this information with him.
Thank you again @Nydex for posting this. Your writing skills are outstanding.
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Thank you dearly, friend <3 It's not uncommon for youth to grow attached to certain fallacies when they're imposed so heavily upon them from the environment, which is usually enslaved to the zeitgeist. I wish you good luck with educating your son on this and getting him on the soy train :)
 
By way of, er, heartenment (it's a word as of now!) my own eldest child is ahead of the curve on this, even as far as noticing it's only the USA (as usual) that uses the term "soy" whereas virtually everyone else calls it "soya" one way or another ;)

Now, here's a particularly egregious example of a grifter and likely meat industry shill being critiqued by the moderately hilarious foul-mouthed reactionary known as Sir Sic:

Apparently the character in the video got into the grift via MLM supplement pushing, if the comments are to be trusted (ahem).
 
Transform said:
By way of, er, heartenment (it's a word as of now!) my own eldest child is ahead of the curve on this, even as far as noticing it's only the USA (as usual) that uses the term "soy" whereas virtually everyone else calls it "soya" one way or another ;)

Now, here's a particularly egregious example of a grifter and likely meat industry shill being critiqued by the moderately hilarious foul-mouthed reactionary known as Sir Sic:

Apparently the character in the video got into the grift via MLM supplement pushing, if the comments are to be trusted (ahem).
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True, it's called soya (spelled "соя") here as well. Also, that templar dude is hilarious :ROFLMAO: I'm not even going to comment on the absolute idiocy of the narrative this woman is pushing forward. Just entertaining these ideas is an insult to intelligence itself.
 
Nydex said:
True, it's called soya (spelled "соя") here as well. Also, that templar dude is hilarious :ROFLMAO: I'm not even going to comment on the absolute idiocy of the narrative this woman is pushing forward. Just entertaining these ideas is an insult to intelligence itself.
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It's deliberately highly polarised, as an attempt to market to the, uhm, uninformed. Vested interests (like big tinnitus :ROFLMAO: ) will have taken an interest in this.

Sir Sic is pretty funny in small doses.
 
Maltbread also has a more bitter taste because of the roasting. I recently was able to compare two buns that where nearly identical, except from the coloration.

In my view, the bitterness is not really an improvement.

I think maybe it is done because people associate it with rye, because it is way too dark to look like wholewheat bread actually. It can almost be as dark as roasted coffeebeans.
 
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